Myong Hi Kim "Borrowed Landscape"

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Myong Hi Kim’s oil pastel on chalkboard landscapes may depict children or empty sky-bound vistas or sunlit water and leaves, but nothing in Kim’s work is as it seems; she explains, “... the vision that I present is that of apparition rather than appearance.”

Since 1990, one of Kim’s studios has been in an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Korea. She also has a studio in New York and says, “... the difference is between city life and rural life, not between the United States and Korea.” In the school, the original chalkboards first served to block the bitter cold; later, they became the grounds for Kim’s signature works.

Kim had a peripatetic childhood and continues to travel to create. The black road of “Navajo Route” leads to New Mexico and references the Navajo experience and in many ways Kim’s own experiences. Kim’s landscapes are universal places set in a universal time. It is more than a metaphor to say the light of the historical past is with us now; we live in a time when we eagerly discuss starlight that has reached us, just today, from billions of years ago.

Through her careful rendering of light effects, Kim shares her understanding that events are never discrete and are of multiple spaces and times. In “Borrowed Landscape” a pond flickers in sunlight. The affect of the sun is visible; it sets the leaves across the pond alight, but the sun itself is not visible in the sky. Kim suggests that the scene as first viewed by the artist was also an apparition, a trick of the light.

MYONG HI KIM was born in Seoul, Korea. She lives and works in New York and an abandoned schoolhouse in Naep’yong-ni, a tiny mountain village in Kangwon Province, Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Pratt Institute, New York.

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Schedule

from January 12, 2012 to February 25, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-01-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Myong Hi Kim

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